RIP Lance Butterwick

Tributes have been paid to former Boston Town bar manager Lance Butterwick, who has died following a brief illness.

He was a hugely popular and larger-than-life character, who was brought in to run the Phoenix Lounge social club and bar at Tattershall Road in the early 1990s.

His funeral will take place at Boston Crematorium on Friday 9 March at 10.30am, followed by refreshments at the Conservative Club. His son Rob said: "Feel free to wear what you want, dad would have wanted it that way. We're only doing family flowers and are having a collection for the Stroke Association."